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Why Testing of a Release Artifact Matters

For an apache project, a VOTE on a release candidate is a very important process.  By voting (particularly for PPMC members and committers), you are saying to the world that "yes, I have download, verified and tested using the project's procedure for testing".  Your +1, 0 or -1 vote is an indication of the success of the steps listed.

The more time that each individual spends reviewing the artifacts, the higher confidence we can have in both the release itself and our ability to pass an IPMC vote later on.  Remember, we, as a podling, are going to be held to a higher standard for our releases!  The IPMC (and our mentors) are looking for us to show that we understand what it means to have a high quality release.

Test with source code release

Test with source code release

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To setup an environment for CloudStack, usually it will take a while, e.g install a hypervisor host, install Mysql server etc. Here we'll use DevCloud(http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/COMM/DevCloud) to simplify the test procedure.    

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Following steps are tested on Mint 13, should work on ubuntu 12.04.  The same basic workflow should also work on Mac 10.7, with different specific commands for the prerequisite setup steps.  For Windows, you will need to run in cygwin and rename the genisoimage.exe file to mkisofs.

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